Essays & Articles

Gidwitz debuts with a deliciously twisted reworking of Grimm’s fairy tales that casts Hansel and Gretel in lead roles in several other stories, as they seek a perfect (or even just “nice”) family. Quite gory and quite funny, Gidwitz’s expertly engineered collection has heart, too, and is all but certain to reignite readers’ interest in the source material.